If there was a positive thing that Carmelo Anthony could take from the Knicks’ brutal 2014-15 season, he said, it might be clarity.
On Thursday morning, Anthony came back to that word — and the general concept — several times to answer questions at the Knicks’ training complex. He was speaking to reporters for the first time since mid-February, when a major surgical procedure on his left knee brought his season to an early close. One day after the Knicks played their final game, a loss that dropped their record to 17-65, Anthony seemed intent on heralding the optimism that would replace the misery now that the season was over, now that the storm clouds had passed.